Social Class

From the Jazz Age to the Uprisings of the 1930s

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 20 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 15 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the economic and social realities of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the corresponding rise of unions and the Communist Party.

Labor, Social Class

Strikers and Populists in the Golden Age

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 11 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the Gilded Age.

Labor, Social Class

Civil War and Class Conflict

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 16 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 10 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on “The Other Civil War” - the class conflict fought by the poor in the north and south.

Labor, Social Class

Half a Revolution

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 16 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 5 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the Revolutionary War as “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,” as well as the failure of early Americans to complete a full revolution.

Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Social Class

Preparing the Revolution

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 15 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 4 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on class differences and internal dissent before and during the Revolutionary War.

Democracy & Citizenship, Social Class

Servitude and Rebellion

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olsen-Raymer. 15 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 3 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the role and dissent of indentured servants in American colonial history.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Labor, Social Class

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Book - Nonfiction. By Ronald Takaki. 2008. 560 pages.
A multicultural history of America, in the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and others.

African American, Asian American, Immigration, Individuals in US History, Labor, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, Social Class